Hey, great find! The v1 Fuze is a very dependable device. As with many products, a supplier obviously had a case of them in the warehouse, or the Toys R Us warehouse had one hiding behind a pallet of Tickle Me Elmos.
Speaking of those irritating fad-inspiring red furballs, I see that they experimented at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, researching into how many Tickle Me Elmos are required to achieve critical mass. If enough of the buzzing gizmos are piled together, a self-sustaining Elmo Reaction can result, continuing until their batteries are sufficiently depleted.
This phenomenon was observed several years prior, with the potentially irascible Furby dolls. The fuzzy speaking creatures would begin a simultaneous unintelligible cocophony…no, wait, that was the UN general assembly, I believe.
Bob 
